After calling the Republican "capitulation" to Trump complete, he
chastised McConnell, the Senate majority leader, for leading a
supposedly "pro-Trump propaganda tour" the week before.

"Sen. McConnell spent last week as Donald Trump's head
cheerleader — a trumpet," the Senate minority leader said. "The
Republican leader left Washington 10 days ago without doing
his job on Zika so he could stump for Trump."

"And in the last 10 days, it has become clear that
Sen. McConnell will go to any length to support Donald
Trump," he continued.

Reid lambasted McConnell for not explicitly calling Trump's
attacks against US District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel racist
during a Sunday "Meet the Press" interview. Trump has
repeatedly insisted that Curiel's Mexican heritage makes it
impossible to rule fairly in a Trump University case over which
the judge is currently presiding.

Curiel was born in Indiana, but Trump has suggested that
Curiel's background has made him impartial because of Trump's
vows to build a wall along the US-Mexico border.

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McConnell during an interview with Business
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Trump later said that it was "possible" that a Muslim
judge would
also not be able to preside fairly over a case involving the
presumptive nominee because of his proposed barring of
Muslim immigrants.

"Donald Trump opined a federal judge should be disqualified from
presiding on his case because of his Mexican heritage," Reid
said. "He went even further in saying he would feel the same way
if the judge were Muslim."

"And how did the Republican leader respond?" Reid continued.
"Sen. McConnell repeatedly refused to say Donald Trump's attacks
on Judge Curiel's ethnicity are racist. This is precisely the
type of failure that gave rise to Donald Trump in the first
place."

In a Sunday interview on NBC's "Meet the Press," McConnell
said that he "couldn't disagree more" with what Trump has said
about Curiel.

"This is a man who was born in Indiana," McConnell said. "All of
us came here from somewhere else."

But McConnell would not call the attack "racist" when pressed
repeatedly by host Chuck Todd.

"Sen. McConnell and all congressional Republican leaders
have never taken a stand against Trump's vile rhetoric," Reid
said.

"By refusing to denounce Trump's attack on a federal judge for
the racism it clearly connotes, it shows Sen. McConnell is the
poster boy for Republicans' spinelessness that allowed Donald
Trump to be the Republican nominee for President of the United
States," he continued.

Reid went on, insisting that McConnell was "too busy being a
trumpet for Trump" to work on any legislative matters. He also
said that there are many more questions for McConnell to answer
after dodging the question of whether Trump's attacks against
Curiel are racist.

In McConnell's newly released memoir, he dedicated a passage to
his longtime Senate counterpart.

McConnell wrote:

If a scalpel will work, he picks up a meat-ax. He also has a Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde personality. In person, Harry is thoughtful,
friendly, and funny. But as soon as the cameras turn on or he's
offered a microphone, he becomes bombastic and unreasonable,
spouting things that are both nasty and often untrue, forcing him
to then later apologize.